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Marc Giauque reportingThink you're paying a lot of money for gas? Have you checked out the price for say bottle water, milk or a list of other grocery items? It may be little consolation but there are a lot of things that would cost a lot more if you had to put it in your gas tank.
Now, before you go off about the reporter you heard comparing a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk. Consider this, many of you know exactly what you're paying for gas right now.
"About $2.79."
"About $2.79 a gallon."
Milk, on the other hand...
"Sure, um, under two dollars I think about or around two dollars."
"$3.24."
"About a dollar fifty, well two dollars probably. I pay more attention to gas."
Same story, it seems, for bottled water.
"It'll be about a hundred and ten dollars for a gallon."
At Salt Lake's Costco, milk, by the way, ranges in cost from about $1.60 to $1.80.
Water depends on what you buy. For the Kirkland brand, you'll pay about a $1.06 per gallon. Perrier at the same store will set you back about $5.
Shampoo, the cheap stuff, is about $9 a gallon.
"Could always be worse."
Yes it could be. This man had children's Tylenol in his cart, a gallon would cost about $300. Now, we know your car won't get you to work on a gallon of Tylenol, but maybe it would on, let's say, vegetable oil.
Pretty comparable, really, at about $2.70 a gallon. Another difference, these shoppers say, much of what they buy now is optional, gas is not.
"I don't drink bottled water as often as I have to drive my car, and besides I'm not one of those people who wants to pay an exorbitant price for bottled water."
"I only buy this for convenience. I can just drink tap water."
Others take a philosophical approach.
"You have to put it into perspective too."
True enough. At Costco, you can get gas for about $2.62. At the same store in say, Hawaii, a gallon of gas could set you back $3.46.
